Gordon Strachan Reveals Surprising World Cup Ritual: Why Everyone Craved the Post-Match Drug Test!
“You would get one three-minute phone call a week, with someone queuing up behind you.”
These days, players are told how they must eat, sleep, train and even relax, but the ramshackle nature of the tournament in the 1980s – even when it came to matters as serious as drug testing – was a world away from what footballers experience today.
“You made your own fun – everybody wanted to be in the post-match drug test, because you could drink as much alcohol as you wanted until you needed a wee,” Strachan, who turned out 50 times for Scotland, adds.
“You’d think, ‘You beauty, I’m in the drug test!’
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